Re: A problem with zh_CN.GB2312 locale

From: "R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>

To: Yu Di <ydi eecs uic edu>

Cc: <gnome-i18n gnome org>

Subject: Re: A problem with zh_CN.GB2312 locale

Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 00:20:44 +0800 (HKT)

> Hi, I have a problem using Gnome under the zh_CN.GB2312 locale. The
> problem is: the Chinese menu items, button texts, etc. are displayed
> correctly, but all the English menu items, button texts, etc. are
> displayed with a wrong width. That is, the tail part of these texts are
> not displayed. Also, when I put English letters into an entry, the cursor
> will not appear in the correct place.
>
> It seems that the width of English characters/fonts are not calculated
> correctly.
It helps if you can post the content of your .gtkrc and system-wide
gtkrc.zh_CN .........
I've seen the same problem before (and other languages with multi-byte
char). After upgrading to 1.2.10 the problem is gone. See if it helps.
Abel Cheung